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Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.

— George Will

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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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